CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSSSergeant Reid and SSgt. Carl N. Vinson were on an authorized flight out of Ewa Field, Hawaii, on this date. At 0942, their aircraft crashed into the sea 100 yards off Barber’s Point, Oahu.

* Note: Sergeant Reid appears to have been a native of Oklahoma. At the time of his death, his mother was a patient at State Hospital #2 in St. Joseph, Missouri. His father, Earl Reid Senior, was living in Tulsa.

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